Attica prison uprising, 1971 and America today (E245)

He’s a working class council houseman from Edinburgh with not much in the way of formal education. Yet his reach is phenomenal: from a critique of Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” to a new work on the epic Attica Prison uprising. Not that he lets contemporary events go unremarked. John Wight has emerged as possibly one of the best writers in Britain. It is possible that once he will be quoted, like Orwell, as a tribune of the people with his relentless commentary on the way things are. He came into the studio to give us his take on what went on and what’s going on now.

The apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree. This apple has fallen plumb centre in the world of television, film and history. The tree is the giant Oliver Stone, its apple is his son Sean Stone. He’s a writer, director, actor, cinematographer – the list goes on. So, we invited him into the Sputnik studio to tell us about his documentary “A Century of War” and his take on contemporary America.

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